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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
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Liechtenstein, Ale. "The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South," University of Pennsylvania, 1990. Advisor: Drew G. Faust (11, 1, 5)
This study of convict labor, 1866-1916, argues that in the New South a new class of southern capitalists promoted modernization, and relied on a form of penal slavery. The dissertation focuses on several enterprises in Georgia that relied on convict labor leased from the state. Convict leasing was abolished in Georgia in 1908, but replaced with the equally brutal sate-supervised “chain-gang” on Georgia’s roads. Thus the compatibility of force black labor with economic development in the U.S. South persisted into the twentieth century in the guise of a Progressive “reform.”
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